Everyone went back to life in September (and I missed LegalGeek, which caused me massive FOMO). It’s so great to see the corridors of LinkedIn bustling with activity again!
Anyway, there’s a lot of ground to cover, including:
- Bucerius Legal Tech Essentials are back!
- How to sell to lawyers
- Legal Design Methodologies
- How to make standard templates
- The internal struggles when your name is different or “difficult to pronounce”
#1 Bucerius Legal Tech Essentials are coming back
This one is exciting – Bucerius is coming back this fall with their Legal Tech Essentials, this time in cooperation with the SMU Yong Pung How School of Law and Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology.
It involves 60-90 minutes talks from mid-November to early December on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, optimised for most timezones (check out specific times in the link below).
I can only recommend this series (it was, after all, one of the reasons why I attended the Summer School from the same production). While the speakers are yet to be announced, I had the pleasure of being taught by some of the usual suspects, so I am pretty sure this is going to be worth making the time.
Quick take-away: You can sign up here, it’s gonna be great.
#2 Alex Su on selling to lawyers
Prior to his ascendance to the Throne of the Law Memelord and Ironclad, Alex Su used to be all about sales to lawyers.
In this Twitter thread and a longer article here, he shares how to sell to lawyers.
I am usually on the receiving end and I agree with Alex on a lot of his points. On pitching to lawyers, you may find helpful my six tips for a good legal tech demo.
Quick take-away: Make sure you adjust the pitch to lawyers, selling to them is a little different.
#3 Margaret Hagan on expanding legal design methodologies
In her paper Legal Design as a Thing: A Theory of Change and a Set of Methods to Craft a Human-Centered Legal System, the founder of the legal design movement, Margaret Hagan explores the possible directions of expansion of the legal design methodology.
Legal design is often mistakenly considered limited only to the notion of Design Thinking. Margaret, however, argues that a further development of methodological base is necessary, and covers the possibilities.
Not yet familiar with legal design? Check out my Introduction to Legal Design here.
Quick take: Learn to use Design Thinking but don’t stop there.
#4 Mat Jakubowski’s guide to templates
Mat’s legal visualisations are always such a unique, straightforward content, but I am specifically a fan of this one.
Quick takeaway: Good data = good templates.
P.S.: Do not attempt to automate or do anything sophisticated before you have good foundations.
P.P.S.: Follow Mat, he does cool stuff.
#5 I changed my name to fit in
This is frankly my eternal struggle. With my first name (Barbora), a good percentage of people outside Slavic language group just don’t notice/care to pronounce or spell it properly (if I got a penny for each very distinct Barbara,…). With my last name, most people don’t actually even bother, and I kind of gave up on even asking.
I like using Baru – not to fit in, that’s not really that big of a deal for me. But to be honest, using it also helps to avoid hearing my name butchered every single time I speak to certain people. Having to sit through a 30 minute meeting, being called Barbara at a rate of 3 times per minute? Got me screaming. Call me Barb? No, thank you.
These voices from the legal industry had it definitely even harder than me, and are incredibly important to hear and listen to. Making an effort to at least learn others’ names properly is bare minimum if we want to create inclusive environments, in law and beyond.
Quick takeaway: Make an effort to learn the names of others. Ask them, how they want to be called. We’re usually more than happy to help you pronounce it well rather than suffer in silence.
Daily read on Twitter
I’ve been developing a practice of posting an almost daily read (and the occasional podcast) on my twitter. The reads range from everything from legal, innovation, design, and technology.
So far, I have featured All Smart Contracts are Ambiguous by James Grimmelmann, The Onion’s Amicus Brief, My tips on Legal Tech Demos, A Web3 podcast episode by CodeNewbiea mnoho dalších.
Quick takeaway: Follow me to enjoy my fav finds daily!
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